Hepzibah / Hipsibah / Hepsibeth / Hebzibah / Hiphzabah on court & vital records; spelled "Hephzibah" on her headstone, Hephzibah is the Bible spelling of this name; Means "my delight is in her" in Hebrew. She is a queen and the mother of Manasseh in the Old Testament.
Spelled "Hephzibah" on her marriage record to Nehemiah Stevens
Maiden name also spelled "Kellum" in "Memorials of elder John White, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., & of his descendants" by Allyn S Kellog; Case, Lockwood & Co, 1860.
Spelled "Kilham" when her Great-Great Grandfather came to America on the "Mary Anne" of Yarmouth: "Kilham, Augustine -from Wrentham, Suffolk, bound for Salem" (MA, New England) ["Killam Genealogy" by Sidney Perley @ ancestry.com & Anne Stevens of packrat-pro.com]
Preston Connecticut 1 Jan 1766:
"The public records of the colony of Connecticut" @ ancestry.com:
Eliab Farnham & Abigail his wife and Robert Rose & Sarah his wife (& the 2 minor children of dec'd Jeptha) ordered to pay the lawful money bequeathed to Olive (Tracy), Mercy, & Hepzibah Killam, all of Preston, bequeathed to them by their father John Killam.
Also from father, John Killam's Will, dated 9 Feb 1753:
"I give & bequeath my Soul to the hands of God that gave it...I give & bequeath to my beloved wife Hipsibah Killam...my son Phineas...my son Zadock...my son Amasa Killam…my dutiful son Nathan Killam…my son Jopthah…son John...dutiful daughter Sarah Rose...my dutiful daughters Abigail, Marcey, Hipsabah, and Olive Killam…divided equally among them…I make my dutiful son Nathan sole executor…give my four daughters in his (Nathan) hand until they marry or come to the age of eighteen years..."
4 May 1754: daughters of John Killam, dec'd, Mercy in the 16th year of her age & Hepzibah in the 14th year of her age appeared in court to ask that their brother Nathan Killam be their guardian...Apr 25, 1759: John Killam, son of John Killam, in the 15th year of his age request that Nathan Killam be his guardian.
"Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870" (Barbour Collection) @ ancestry.com:
Name: Hiphzabah Killum; Spouse: Nehemiah Stevens;
Marriage: 24 Jan 1766, Plainfield, Connecticut.
Children:
Daniel -b.7 Aug 1766 CT -a Blacksmith, Private US Army War of 1812, married Hannah Spencer;
Russell -b.17 June 1768 CT-"settled in Alxexandra, VA & lost at sea sometime after 1822" He married Katherine L
and they had a daughter Louisa A Stevens;
Rebecka -b.10 Mar 1770 CT & married Dr. Jonathon Moore;
Roswell -b.27 Feb 1772 CT, d.3 July 1847 IA -Mormon Pioneer married 1798 Sybell Spencer Stevens
Abigail Stevens died at age 1-1/2;
Esther Stevens White -b.10 Jan 1776 CT, d.25 Sep 1858 VT, married Hon. Phineas White, later settled here in Putney.
Nehemiah died in 1776, leaving Hephzibah with 5 young children ages 1 month to 10 years old. Hephzibah raised these children, on her own, during the turmoil of the Revolutionary War.
(Daughter, Abigail, preceded her father in Death.)
Death record: "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908" @ ancestry.com;
Name: Stevens, Hepzibah, age 67; husband: Nehemiah Stevens; Cemetery: Maple Grove / Stevens, widow, age 67; died yr.1808-m.12-d.20; cause: paralysis; town: Putney, VT (Daughter Esther married the Hon. Phineas White & they settled here in Vermont - Widowed, Hepzibah was probably living with or near them.)
Spelled "Hephzibah" on her marriage record to Nehemiah Stevens
Maiden name also spelled "Kellum" in "Memorials of elder John White, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., & of his descendants" by Allyn S Kellog; Case, Lockwood & Co, 1860.
Spelled "Kilham" when her Great-Great Grandfather came to America on the "Mary Anne" of Yarmouth: "Kilham, Augustine -from Wrentham, Suffolk, bound for Salem" (MA, New England) ["Killam Genealogy" by Sidney Perley @ ancestry.com & Anne Stevens of packrat-pro.com]
Preston Connecticut 1 Jan 1766:
"The public records of the colony of Connecticut" @ ancestry.com:
Eliab Farnham & Abigail his wife and Robert Rose & Sarah his wife (& the 2 minor children of dec'd Jeptha) ordered to pay the lawful money bequeathed to Olive (Tracy), Mercy, & Hepzibah Killam, all of Preston, bequeathed to them by their father John Killam.
Also from father, John Killam's Will, dated 9 Feb 1753:
"I give & bequeath my Soul to the hands of God that gave it...I give & bequeath to my beloved wife Hipsibah Killam...my son Phineas...my son Zadock...my son Amasa Killam…my dutiful son Nathan Killam…my son Jopthah…son John...dutiful daughter Sarah Rose...my dutiful daughters Abigail, Marcey, Hipsabah, and Olive Killam…divided equally among them…I make my dutiful son Nathan sole executor…give my four daughters in his (Nathan) hand until they marry or come to the age of eighteen years..."
4 May 1754: daughters of John Killam, dec'd, Mercy in the 16th year of her age & Hepzibah in the 14th year of her age appeared in court to ask that their brother Nathan Killam be their guardian...Apr 25, 1759: John Killam, son of John Killam, in the 15th year of his age request that Nathan Killam be his guardian.
"Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870" (Barbour Collection) @ ancestry.com:
Name: Hiphzabah Killum; Spouse: Nehemiah Stevens;
Marriage: 24 Jan 1766, Plainfield, Connecticut.
Children:
Daniel -b.7 Aug 1766 CT -a Blacksmith, Private US Army War of 1812, married Hannah Spencer;
Russell -b.17 June 1768 CT-"settled in Alxexandra, VA & lost at sea sometime after 1822" He married Katherine L
and they had a daughter Louisa A Stevens;
Rebecka -b.10 Mar 1770 CT & married Dr. Jonathon Moore;
Roswell -b.27 Feb 1772 CT, d.3 July 1847 IA -Mormon Pioneer married 1798 Sybell Spencer Stevens
Abigail Stevens died at age 1-1/2;
Esther Stevens White -b.10 Jan 1776 CT, d.25 Sep 1858 VT, married Hon. Phineas White, later settled here in Putney.
Nehemiah died in 1776, leaving Hephzibah with 5 young children ages 1 month to 10 years old. Hephzibah raised these children, on her own, during the turmoil of the Revolutionary War.
(Daughter, Abigail, preceded her father in Death.)
Death record: "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908" @ ancestry.com;
Name: Stevens, Hepzibah, age 67; husband: Nehemiah Stevens; Cemetery: Maple Grove / Stevens, widow, age 67; died yr.1808-m.12-d.20; cause: paralysis; town: Putney, VT (Daughter Esther married the Hon. Phineas White & they settled here in Vermont - Widowed, Hepzibah was probably living with or near them.)
Hepzibah / Hipsibah / Hepsibeth / Hebzibah / Hiphzabah on court & vital records; spelled "Hephzibah" on her headstone, Hephzibah is the Bible spelling of this name; Means "my delight is in her" in Hebrew. She is a queen and the mother of Manasseh in the Old Testament.
Spelled "Hephzibah" on her marriage record to Nehemiah Stevens
Maiden name also spelled "Kellum" in "Memorials of elder John White, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., & of his descendants" by Allyn S Kellog; Case, Lockwood & Co, 1860.
Spelled "Kilham" when her Great-Great Grandfather came to America on the "Mary Anne" of Yarmouth: "Kilham, Augustine -from Wrentham, Suffolk, bound for Salem" (MA, New England) ["Killam Genealogy" by Sidney Perley @ ancestry.com & Anne Stevens of packrat-pro.com]
Preston Connecticut 1 Jan 1766:
"The public records of the colony of Connecticut" @ ancestry.com:
Eliab Farnham & Abigail his wife and Robert Rose & Sarah his wife (& the 2 minor children of dec'd Jeptha) ordered to pay the lawful money bequeathed to Olive (Tracy), Mercy, & Hepzibah Killam, all of Preston, bequeathed to them by their father John Killam.
Also from father, John Killam's Will, dated 9 Feb 1753:
"I give & bequeath my Soul to the hands of God that gave it...I give & bequeath to my beloved wife Hipsibah Killam...my son Phineas...my son Zadock...my son Amasa Killam…my dutiful son Nathan Killam…my son Jopthah…son John...dutiful daughter Sarah Rose...my dutiful daughters Abigail, Marcey, Hipsabah, and Olive Killam…divided equally among them…I make my dutiful son Nathan sole executor…give my four daughters in his (Nathan) hand until they marry or come to the age of eighteen years..."
4 May 1754: daughters of John Killam, dec'd, Mercy in the 16th year of her age & Hepzibah in the 14th year of her age appeared in court to ask that their brother Nathan Killam be their guardian...Apr 25, 1759: John Killam, son of John Killam, in the 15th year of his age request that Nathan Killam be his guardian.
"Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870" (Barbour Collection) @ ancestry.com:
Name: Hiphzabah Killum; Spouse: Nehemiah Stevens;
Marriage: 24 Jan 1766, Plainfield, Connecticut.
Children:
Daniel -b.7 Aug 1766 CT -a Blacksmith, Private US Army War of 1812, married Hannah Spencer;
Russell -b.17 June 1768 CT-"settled in Alxexandra, VA & lost at sea sometime after 1822" He married Katherine L
and they had a daughter Louisa A Stevens;
Rebecka -b.10 Mar 1770 CT & married Dr. Jonathon Moore;
Roswell -b.27 Feb 1772 CT, d.3 July 1847 IA -Mormon Pioneer married 1798 Sybell Spencer Stevens
Abigail Stevens died at age 1-1/2;
Esther Stevens White -b.10 Jan 1776 CT, d.25 Sep 1858 VT, married Hon. Phineas White, later settled here in Putney.
Nehemiah died in 1776, leaving Hephzibah with 5 young children ages 1 month to 10 years old. Hephzibah raised these children, on her own, during the turmoil of the Revolutionary War.
(Daughter, Abigail, preceded her father in Death.)
Death record: "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908" @ ancestry.com;
Name: Stevens, Hepzibah, age 67; husband: Nehemiah Stevens; Cemetery: Maple Grove / Stevens, widow, age 67; died yr.1808-m.12-d.20; cause: paralysis; town: Putney, VT (Daughter Esther married the Hon. Phineas White & they settled here in Vermont - Widowed, Hepzibah was probably living with or near them.)
Spelled "Hephzibah" on her marriage record to Nehemiah Stevens
Maiden name also spelled "Kellum" in "Memorials of elder John White, one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., & of his descendants" by Allyn S Kellog; Case, Lockwood & Co, 1860.
Spelled "Kilham" when her Great-Great Grandfather came to America on the "Mary Anne" of Yarmouth: "Kilham, Augustine -from Wrentham, Suffolk, bound for Salem" (MA, New England) ["Killam Genealogy" by Sidney Perley @ ancestry.com & Anne Stevens of packrat-pro.com]
Preston Connecticut 1 Jan 1766:
"The public records of the colony of Connecticut" @ ancestry.com:
Eliab Farnham & Abigail his wife and Robert Rose & Sarah his wife (& the 2 minor children of dec'd Jeptha) ordered to pay the lawful money bequeathed to Olive (Tracy), Mercy, & Hepzibah Killam, all of Preston, bequeathed to them by their father John Killam.
Also from father, John Killam's Will, dated 9 Feb 1753:
"I give & bequeath my Soul to the hands of God that gave it...I give & bequeath to my beloved wife Hipsibah Killam...my son Phineas...my son Zadock...my son Amasa Killam…my dutiful son Nathan Killam…my son Jopthah…son John...dutiful daughter Sarah Rose...my dutiful daughters Abigail, Marcey, Hipsabah, and Olive Killam…divided equally among them…I make my dutiful son Nathan sole executor…give my four daughters in his (Nathan) hand until they marry or come to the age of eighteen years..."
4 May 1754: daughters of John Killam, dec'd, Mercy in the 16th year of her age & Hepzibah in the 14th year of her age appeared in court to ask that their brother Nathan Killam be their guardian...Apr 25, 1759: John Killam, son of John Killam, in the 15th year of his age request that Nathan Killam be his guardian.
"Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870" (Barbour Collection) @ ancestry.com:
Name: Hiphzabah Killum; Spouse: Nehemiah Stevens;
Marriage: 24 Jan 1766, Plainfield, Connecticut.
Children:
Daniel -b.7 Aug 1766 CT -a Blacksmith, Private US Army War of 1812, married Hannah Spencer;
Russell -b.17 June 1768 CT-"settled in Alxexandra, VA & lost at sea sometime after 1822" He married Katherine L
and they had a daughter Louisa A Stevens;
Rebecka -b.10 Mar 1770 CT & married Dr. Jonathon Moore;
Roswell -b.27 Feb 1772 CT, d.3 July 1847 IA -Mormon Pioneer married 1798 Sybell Spencer Stevens
Abigail Stevens died at age 1-1/2;
Esther Stevens White -b.10 Jan 1776 CT, d.25 Sep 1858 VT, married Hon. Phineas White, later settled here in Putney.
Nehemiah died in 1776, leaving Hephzibah with 5 young children ages 1 month to 10 years old. Hephzibah raised these children, on her own, during the turmoil of the Revolutionary War.
(Daughter, Abigail, preceded her father in Death.)
Death record: "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908" @ ancestry.com;
Name: Stevens, Hepzibah, age 67; husband: Nehemiah Stevens; Cemetery: Maple Grove / Stevens, widow, age 67; died yr.1808-m.12-d.20; cause: paralysis; town: Putney, VT (Daughter Esther married the Hon. Phineas White & they settled here in Vermont - Widowed, Hepzibah was probably living with or near them.)
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